Nina Julich-Warpakowski

Education

2004-2010 Leipzig UniversityBritish Studies (with a focus on English linguistics) and Musicology (focus on historical musicology), including an ERASMUS year in Cardiff, Wales, UK Master‘s thesis: Contrasts in the Lexicon. Conceptualizations of Music in English and German

Professional Career

Leipzig UniversitySince 2015/10 Research Associate at the English DepartmentPhD project: Metaphors in Verbal Descriptions of Music

Presentations

Metaphors for music: Beyond time is motion2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language, Pavia, Italy, 2015

Metaphors for Music. Different Levels of Conceptualization (with Paula Pérez-Sobrino)13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Newcastle, UK, 2015, special theme session on music and language

Metaphor in Texts on Music12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Edmonton, Canada, 2013, special theme session on music and language